RIP Philadelphia Stars: Team sent to slaughterhouse, will not make USFL-XFL merger

The USFL and XFL are merging, which means the Philadelphia Stars are getting the axe, according to Mike Florio at Pro Football Talk. 

Four USFL teams will merge with the XFL and unfortunately for Stars fans, the Philadelphia team will not be included. Teams from Michigan, Houston, Memphis, and Birmingham will make the merge, while Pittsburgh, New Jersey, New Orleans, and Philadelphia have been left for slaughter. 

Philadelphia Stars not part of the USFL-XFL merger

Four have survived. Four have not.

The combined USFL-XFL has informed the USFL Players Association, which has informed its members, that four teams from the USFL will survive for 2024: Michigan, Houston, Memphis, and Birmingham.

Gone are Pittsburgh, New Jersey, New Orleans, and Philadelphia.

The XFL had teams last year in Arlington, Houston, Orlando, San Antonio, D.C., Seattle, St. Louis, and Las Vegas. Unless there will be two Houston-based teams, the XFL’s Roughnecks will be no more.

Presumably, four XFL teams will combine with the four surviving USFL teams to create a new eight-team league.

The combined league is due to debut in late March 2024.

[Mike Florio at Pro Football Talk]

Honestly, I don’t give a damn about the Philadelphia Stars. The USFL was a shit show from the start and no team actually played in the city that they supposedly represented. 

It looks like we are stuck with the Philadelphia Eagles until the three-time Arena Football Bowl champion Philadelphia Soul return to Philly in 2024. 

How will we ever survive?!

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